The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-28
THE CARICATURISTS
sKETCl1Eso OF TIE MENwn MAKE
TIE FUNNY PICTURES.
An Art That Has Come Down to Us From
Antiquity-IIow Cartoons are Made-Ar.
tlsts, OF Ceicbrityi In TIL. L%inc-Jos. Keep
pier. Dcrnhnrl Gillian and G, j. Taylor.

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AntIquity-IIow Cartoons are Made-Ar.
lists, OF Celebrity In This Linc-Jos. Keep
pier. bernhard Gillian and Q. j. Taylor.
Caricaturc Is an art that can DO traced
back until Il Is lost In antiquity. Upoui
eircumstantial evidence Il Is safe, | think,
10 siy that II was cocval with tho ilrst
appearance Of maj on this earth; for,
rs mn appreciation Of tho ludicrous side
Of life Is inherent in n person, SO, also,
Is tho faculty Of portmying II IN some
way OF other. When tho walls Of Pom.
pcii were uncarthcd forty years ago col.
orcd frcscocs Of ltidicrous figures, ami.
mails, ETC., were. found, and among the
Chinese arc still cytant comic figures known
to be over 1900 years old. indcci, among
sculptures Of the Egyptians Of 1900 years
ago arc some Of the most humorous con.
ccptions and c%aritaturcs.
But caricaturc Ms n power never reached
It's height until the last quarter of n century,
when Its influence grew so great that, rs you
know, Bismarck forbids the sale of several
humorous papers in Germany (thc London
Punch among Others) for fear of the popular
effect Of some caricaturcs Of himself; and Y
is n matter of recent history TINT Mr.. Blaine
threatened to Site Pae& during the campaign
of 1891 for publishing Gillam's 'TIattooel
Man, cartoon. boss Tweed Is said TO have
Offered to pay 10000 If tho IInrpcrs would
discontinue their attacks upon him. ~
don't mind tho newspaper editorials, " said
he, "bnt DIN those picturcsl The poor
man does not read papers much, but every.
body can understand those cartoons
Tho present style of c%artooning in color
was originated in France, and iirt appeared
in this country in San Francisco. a lapcr
was published there called The Wasp, which
was printed in black with one tint: II Is now
printed In colos. Mr.. kcpplcr started tho
German Ifcki In ST. Louis, in 1870, which came
to IN untimcly death within n few months.
In 1876 he revived II in New York, and soon
afterward Judge was published. The Eng
lish Puck was started in March, 1877. There
have been n host of colored cartoon papers
started In America in the last twenty years,
but these two arc the only ones that have
secured a permanent footing. Among those
which are low only a memory may he tncrI.
toned Wild Outs, FIJth AreRns, IhHnny IHet-
lom, Yankee Notions, Mrs. Grundy, ranity
Fair, Rambler and Panchinello US printing
black anil white pictures, and Whip, lingo,
Chic, Fiiraks, Sam, Strars, Ldterne and one OF
two others which published colored cartoons.
1t may be Of interest to some readers to
know how cartoons are produced. In the
first place, after finding his subject, the artist
proceeds to make his composition roughly
upon paper, after which it Is drawn upon q
very iin6 grainel stone, made especially for
photographic work. 1t requires at least two
days 10 pnsllcc II double page cartoon and
the smaller pictures in proportion; the col
oring takes another day. From this it call
bo seen that the %carto0nist must be n very
industrious worker. for n day is set apart fUr
each branch of his business, and the cartoons
are thus ground out with the regularity Of
clockwork.
JOSEPH KErPLEI.